Holistic Healing

A view of health care focusing on the Òwhole selfÓ (body, mind and spirit) and natural or spiritual cures. The system embraces both traditional and New Age therapy.

(See also: Holistic Healing, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Holistic Healing

A view of health care focusing on the Òwhole selfÓ (body, mind and spirit) and natural or spiritual cures. The system embraces both traditional and New Age therapy.

(See also: Holistic Healing, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Holistic Healing: A view of health care focusing on the "whole self" (body, mind and spirit) and natural or spiritual cures. The system embraces both traditional and New Age therapy.

(See also: Holistic Healing, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Holism (from holos, a Greek word meaning whole) is the idea that the properties of a system cannot be determined or explained by the sum of its components alone. The word, along with the adjective holistic, was coined in the early 1920s by Jan Smuts. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Smuts defined holism as "The tendency in nature to form wholes that are greater than the ...

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Holistic Healing

A view of health care focusing on the “whole self” (body, mind and spirit) and natural or spiritual cures. The system embraces both traditional and New Age therapy.

(See also: Holistic Healing, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

psychospiritual holistic healing: A form of psychotherapy that includes chakra healing, inner child therapy, meditation, and positive thinking.

(See also: Psychospiritual holistic healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

A holistic approach to healing recognizes that the emotional, mental, spiritual and physical elements of each person comprise a system, and attempts to treat the whole person, concentrating on the cause of the illness as well as symptoms. This approach often focuses on traditional (i.e. non-allopathic) medicinal arts. Examples of such holistic therapies include Acupuncture, Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Indian Head Massage, Reiki, and Reflexology, to name just a few. S ...

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Holistic Dentistry

Holistic dentistry treats the teeth, jaw, and related structures with special focus on how treatment will affect the entire body. It stresses the use of nontoxic restoration materials for dental work, and focuses on the impact that hidden dental infections and other dental problems can have on overall health.

(See also: Holistic Dentistry, Alternative Health, Healing, Body Mind and Soul)

HANDS ON HEALING

Is probably one of the oldest forms of healing methods, as it results from the natural tendency to touch someone in pain or sickness. We may understand its efficacy being derived from the innate ability for anyone to act as a “bridge” for healing energy from universal source to reach the afflicted person. In reality there are no external healers, as we all apply various modalities to enable the injured or afflicted to heal themselves. Touch is nurturing, and which is a powerful means for the recipient to receive universal love sufficiently for them to heal. The Healing Touch assists to balance the energies, including the Chakras. See also REIKI.

(See also: HANDS ON HEALING, Alternative Health, Holistic Health, Body Mind and Soul)

PSYCHIC HEALING

A psychic receives information from Spirit, and in accordance with universal permission, and the permission of the recipient, is able to provide information and guidance to the recipient. There are also occasions where the psychic can also be a catalyst for the stimulation of the innate healing energy within the recipient. The psychic healer is also able to receive information from spirit about the causes of a person's challenges in life, be it physical, emotional or spiritual. Normally, it is the healer's intent to assist the recipients to utilize and maximize their own innate healing potential.

(See also: PSYCHIC HEALING, Alternative Health, Holistic Health, Body Mind and Soul)

VIBRATION HEALING

Everything in creation is vibration in varying frequencies. Sound and other tools, like crystals, gemstones, semi-precious stones, and in fact anything that is appropriate can be used in this healing modality. Even a tree! The appropriate vibrational frequency is applied to help remedy the imbalance, from whence you may be able to maintain your own equilibrium in harmony on all levels.

(See also: VIBRATION HEALING, Alternative Health, Holistic Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Energy: Pranic Healing

Prana (pronounced PRAH-nah) is a Sanskrit word meaning "life-force," the invisible bio-energy or vital energy that keeps the body alive and maintains a state of good health.

As an art and science, Pranic Healing was widely practiced in the ancient civilizations of China, Egypt and India. One of today’s methods of Pranic Healing was founded by Mr. Choa Kok Sui, a chemical engineer, philanthropist and businessman. He compiled more than twenty years of research and experimentation on the wise use of subtle healing into over five books on Pranic Healing, which are translated into 24 languages. 

Pranic Healing is based on the theory that every person is surrounded and interpenetrated by a luminous energy body, called the bioplasmic body. The word bioplasmic comes from “bio” (life) and “plasma” (ionized gas with positive and negative charged particles). This is called the “energy body” and has been rediscovered with Kirlian photography. It is through the energy body that prana, or life energy, is absorbed and redistributed throughout the body.

In Pranic Healing, the therapists use crystals or their hands (in a "no touch" method) with specified methods for specific ailments to remove negative or disease energy from the patient's energy body and then transfer fresh prana to the affected areas to accomplish healing. Pranic Healing is based on the principle that the body has the ability to heal itself. To make this happen, it utilizes the life force as fuel to initiate the necessary biochemical changes. Pranic Healing has been found to prevent and heal a whole spectrum of physical, emotional and mental ailments.

(See also: Pranic Healing, Alternative Health, Holistic Health, Body Mind and Soul)

HOLISTIC/WHOLISTIC

an adjective meaning targeted to the whole person - mind, body, and spirit. Wholistic medicine considers not only physical health but also the emotional, spiritual, social, and mental well-being of the person.

(See also: WHOLISTIC, Alternative Health, Healing, Body Mind and Soul)

CRYSTAL THERAPY

A crystal is a mineral that is nearly transparent and colorless or has a slight color.

Practitioners of crystal healing believe that crystals, particularly quartz crystals such as amethyst or clear quartz, contain energy that enhances healing of both body and mind. They believe that crystals can be "charged" with this healing energy, in a manner similar to the charging of a flashlight battery. The charged crystal can then be used to alter the energy patterns in the person receiving treatment.

Crystals, gem stones, and healing stones are beneficial for ill children and adults not only because of their healing energy but because of their beauty and tactile smoothness. Many novelty shops sell flat indented smooth stones, called "worry stones," that help instill as sense of peacefulness when rubbed.

(See also: CRYSTAL THERAPY, Alternative Health, Holistic Health, Body Mind and Soul)

CHINESE ENERGETIC HEALING

Is yet another aspect of the comprehensive approach that Ancient China developed thousands of years ago. This aspect has its roots in Qi Gong (Chi Kung). It develops the life force energy to such a high degree, that it raise the vibration of the practitioner to such a level that the recipient is influenced to do likewise, in their own self-healing.

This requires no touch and reaches beyond space and time. In this way the practitioner is not limited in the application, and a recipient can receive the benefits remotely, anywhere. By working with and on the level of Universal Life Force, what may be perceived as miracles, occur with regularity.

(See also: CHINESE ENERGETIC HEALING, Alternative Health, Holistic Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Crystal Healing: Healing by using energy believed to be generated by quartz and other crystals and minerals.

(See also: Crystal Healing, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

HEALING TOUCH: is practiced by registered nurses and others to accelerate wound healing, relieve pain, promote relaxation, prevent illness and ease the dying process. The practitioner uses light touch or works with his or her hands near the clientÕs body in an effort to restore balance to the clientÕs energy system.

This energy approach is inspired by several old practices of cure, among which the laying on of hands. At the same time preventive and curative, its allows the person to re-mobilize her forces, as well physical, emotional, psychic as spiritual for a greater harmony.

(See also: Healing touch, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Holistic Spa: Spas focusing on alternative healing methods and nutrition, mainly vegetarian or macrobiotic holistic healing seeks "high level of wellness" integrating body and mind in a higher consciousness.

(See also: Holistic Spa, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

SPIRITUAL HEALING / SHAMANIC HEALING: practitioners who regard themselves as conductors of healing energy or sources from the spiritual realm.

Both may call upon spiritual helpers such as power animals, angels, inner teachers, the clientÕs Higher Self, or other spiritual forces.

Both forms of healing can be used for a range of emotional and physical illnesses.

(See also: Spiritual Shamanic healing, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

holistic psychiatry: Form of psychiatry that may include biofeedback, bodywork, energy healing (see vibrational medicine), and homeopathy.

(See also: Holistic psychiatry, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)